Archives - 18 June 2014, Wednesday

At Engine Yard, we've generally found that for dedicated applications, Unicorn is a better choice over Passenger for several reasons. First, even though Passenger is, for all intents and purposes, a quality product, we've seen several cases with version 3 where Passenger has crashed, ...

We’ve published guides in 2009 , 2011 , and 2012 for setting up your Mac OS X laptop as a Ruby on Rails development machine. Many others have published and shared similar tutorials. Instead of copying and pasting a series of steps from a blog post, a better approach is to leverage aut...

So, the way Unicorn does it is it just spins up the new Unicorn and it slowly weans all the connections off the old Unicorn and puts them on the new one. So, we know how everything is wired up and that’s how we can do the Discourse Docker thing. It just does a Git pull, it precompiles...

Persisting Rails models in Elasticsearch Posted by karmiq on June 18, 2014 — 0 comments A new version of the elasticsearch-persistence Rubygem has been released, with support for using Elasticsearch as a persistence layer for Ruby/Rails models. See all the info at Github , and use the...

RailsApps Tutorial on Authorization With Pundit Posted by DanielKehoe on June 18, 2014 — 0 comments I've just released a tutorial on Rails authorization with Pundit . I appreciate the support I'm getting from subscribers to the RailsApps project that makes it possible to write these t...

Scriptable Laptop Setup for an Awesome Development Environment Posted by croaky on June 18, 2014 — 0 comments Don't manually setup your new laptop with a series of copy-and-pasted steps from some blog post. Leverage automation and the open source community to save time and get a more ...

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Four months after administrators of HealthCare.gov released details about the site’s technologically bumpy road to recovery, TIME magazine ran a cover story that gave a behind-the-scenes account of what exactly that journey looked like. Coders and troubleshooters from across the count...

ohmygems version 1.2.0 has been released! Published 2014-06-17 @ 16:59 I’m tired of the complications that tools like bundler and rvm inject into my system and my workflow. I don’t want 4 billion gems installed globally. I don’t want to have rake slow down for no good reason. I don’t ...

minitest version 5.3.5 has been released! Published 2014-06-17 @ 17:06 minitest provides a complete suite of testing facilities supporting TDD, BDD, mocking, and benchmarking. "I had a class with Jim Weirich on testing last week and we were allowed to choose our testing frameworks. Ki...

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This topic has missing or partial documentation. Please help us improve it. See How-To - Write Documentation The Rubinius bytecode compiler converts Ruby source code to bytecode that the virtual machine can execute. It uses a series of sequential stages to transform the input into a f...

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